Shoulder-pad



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SHOULDER PAD.

(Application led Aug. 10, 1898.)

(No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GUSTAV GOLDMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SHOULDER-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,842, dated.December 13, 1898.

Application tiled August 10,1898. Serial No. 688,319. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, GUSTAV GOLDMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented an Improvement in Shoulder- Pads, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to pads that are employed within shoulders ofgarments; and it consists of a new article of manufacture that willalways maintain its shape and consistency when subjected to pressure,strain, or tension. y

My invention consists of a pad having surface openings of various sizesand shapes, whereby when turned or bent its shape and thickness will bemaintained, all as hereinafter specifically pointed out, and illustratedin the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicatesimilar parts on each figure thereof.

Figure l is a top plan view ofA a pad constructed of a single layer offabric, with open slits extending from its outer margin in direction ofthe inner arc. Fig. 2 is a plan View on the opposite side to that shownin Fig. 1, provided with slits that taper from their lower opening ateach side thereof in direction from the lower arc toward the outermargin of the pad. Fig. is a front elevation of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4:represents a pad bent over inwardly. Fig. 5 is a section on line of Fig.2.- Fig. 6 represents a pad composed of superimposed folds of fabrichaving openings of the same character as employed on a pad constructedaccording to my invention of a single layer. Fig. 7 is a part elevationof Fig. 6. Fig. Sis a section on line y 'y of Fig. 7.

A is the pad proper, which may be constructed of a single fold ofmaterial, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or of superimposed foldsof fabric, as illustrated in Figs. G, 7, and 8. The pad has an outercircumferential margin a and an inner arc ct of a smaller curve than theouter margin a, as fully illustrated in thedrawings.

The upper surface of the pad has a series of open slits B, which maypass downwardly through several folds of the fabric, if re quired, whenthe pad is composed of super= imposed layers.

At the lower arc u are a series of openings C, triangular incross-section, which taper upwardly from said arc a given distance indirection toward the outer margin a. When the pad is composed ofsuperimposed folds, said openings O pass through the under folds, but donot extend to the top covering'.

I do not confine m'yinvention to the employment of any special fabric.Felt or wadding or any analogous material may be used, sep arately or incombination, my object being the construction of a soft yielding padthat when bent over will expand at the outer marginal line by opening ofthe slits B and com; pression of the openings C, extending upwardly fromthe lower arc a', which slits and openings, as will be readilyunderstood by all familiar with the line of art to which my invention isallied, prevent rupture of the fabric and wrinkling or folding of thedevice when it is bent over while being placed in position on shouldersof garments or when subjected to strain or tension while on the wearersperson.

I have illustrated in Fig. 4 a pad of a sin gle layer of fabric bentover in direction of the arrows, wherein the upper slits B become openedand the lower openings C become closed.

I deem that a pad constructed either of a single fold or of superimposedlayers,as herein described, overcomes objections to similar articles incommon use, which when stuffed with loose material are frequentlypressed into lumps that make the article misshaped, and when suchcondition arises after the pad is on a finished' garment there lis noway to remedy the defect, while the slits and openings of my device, ashereinbefore fully described, and illustrated in the drawings, oven comethis mischief.

When superimposed folds are employed instead of a single one, they willbe of the same conformation, but preferably of graduated dimension, asshown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8, wherein 1J is the lower one, c the one nextabove, over which is fold d, covered with top fold e. Said superimposedlayers may be ofy any number required, but when overlaid, as

illustrated, there extends downwardly from the outer margin slits B andfrom the lower arc'openings C of the same conformation as used when thepad is composed of a single layer of fabric.

Having thus fully described my invention and its practical operation,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. A coat shoulder-pad having a circumferential outer margin and a lowerarc edge of smaller` dimension the outer margin having a series of openslits extending therefrom downwardly in direction of the lower arc edge,said lower arc edge having a series of openings triangular incross-section tapering therefrom upwardly in direction of the outercircumferential margin substantially as described.

2. A coat shoulder-pad composed of a series of superimposed folds ofyielding fabric, having a circumferential upper outer margin and a lowerarc of smaller dimension, the outer margins, ofeach overlying layer offabric, provided with a series of open slits extending downwardlytherefrom toward the lower arc, the united layers of fabric at the lowerarc having a series of openings triangular in crosssection taperingtherefrom upwardly in direction of the outer circumferential marginsubstantially as described.

3. A coat shoulder-pad of superimposed layers of yielding fabric havingan outer circumferential margin and a lower arc of smaller dimensioneach layerof fabric from the under one to the upper one being ofgraduating dimension, said'layers when united having open slits at theexposed upper surface, and openings triangular in cross-section taperingupwardly from the lower arc substantially as described.

GUSTAV GOLDMANZ lVitnesses:

LEWIS II. PINKNEY, G. W. SoHoENHALs.

